Buenos Aires holds a valuable, striking and suggestive architectonic heritage. Inspired by international sources and combined with the local tendency of free reinterpretation, Buenos Aires Architectonic scenery results in a wide and eclectic building legacy. This journey highlights the most outstanding architectonic features referring not only to their history and description but also and very importantly to their intertwined relation with the city’s history. The sites to be visited are: National Parliament Palace, Colon Theatre, Banco Hipotecario (Jewel of brutalist style), Kavanagh Building (local example of the blend between art deco and rationalism), Barolo Building (Inspired on the Divine Comedy), Retiro central train station (excellent piece of the railroad system worldwide architecture), and the more contemporary Puerto Madero’s buildings. This journey remains complementary with “Images of Buenos Aires” Tour for their itineraries are not overlapped.
Length: 3 hrs. Journey: (Stops at every site) Centre, Avenida de Mayo-Congreso, Plaza Lavalle, Retiro, Puerto Madero.
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